ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
Music (1966-1969). He has written several volumes of memoirs, the first of them:
From the Paths of Music has been published in Canada.
RAIMUND KULL (1882-1942)
One of the most prominent and merited leaders of Estonian music life during the
first independence period.
He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire as a specialist in trombone
and was engaged as a trombonist in St. Petersburg and in several other places. Kull as a
conductor was a talented autodidact and his further great success was based on his
natural talent and hard work. During the years 1912-1920 he was the chief conductor of
the Estonia Theatre, and later its musical director. During the years 1918-1927 Kull
conducted the Estonian Navy Orchestra. From 1929 he belonged to the staff of the
Tallinn Conservatoire as the trombone specialist; he was promoted to professorship in
1937. During the years 1934-1939 Kull was the chief conductor of the Estonian
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